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The Fringe -- and Beyond

By

Diane Snyder

Updated Aug. 8, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

New York

When D'Arcy Drollinger started writing "Scalpel," he wasn't thinking about submitting it to the New York International Fringe Festival. Then a colleague mentioned that the offbeat musical, about a society woman whose face-lift leads her to uncover an assassination plot, would fit perfectly into the 17-day festival, which unfurls 220 new and experimental stage works in the East and West Village today through Aug. 24 (www.fringenyc.org).